Democracy and religious freedom are focus of Shah lecture

Posted March 24, 2011; 03:08 p.m.

by Staff

Political scientiest Timothy Samuel Shah, an associate director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University, will give a talk titled "Why We Can't Promote Democracy and Reduce Conflict Without (a Better Concept of) Religious Freedom" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, in Robertson Hall, Room 1, as part of the Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe and the Muslim World.